LibGuides: Plant Sciences: Articles and Databases

Finding Journal Articles

If you are looking for journal articles in Plant Sciences, these are the databases to use:

CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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The CAB Abstracts database covers the subject of agriculture in the broadest sense.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Web of Science™ Core Collection is a comprehensive interdisciplinary, bibliographic database with article references from journals, books, and proceedings from sciences and technology, arts and humanities, and social sciences. Coverage dates back to 1900, and content is updated weekly.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a multi-disciplinary abstract and citation database.
Please Note: Scopus works with Internet Explorer 11 or Edge, FireFox and Chrome; there is limited functionality with Safari.
BIOSIS Previews (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
In addition to having all of Biological Abstracts back to 1926, BIOSIS Previews indexes virtually every life sciences discipline including traditional biology (botany, ecology, zoology), interdisciplinary subjects (biochemisty, biomedicine, and biotechnology), agriculture, pharmacology, veterinary science, and related areas (instrumentation and methods).
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive, scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database

Here are some tips that should make your search more effective:

Choose keywords from your topic/question
Type these into the "search box" in the database
Click on the search button
Evaluate the search results
Refine search: if the results are unsatisfactory, you may want to use different keywords or apply limits e.g publication year, language etc.